Experiment lane
Labs
Experiments that compile into contracts.
A Lab is a controlled design experiment where a principle becomes visible, testable, remixable, and reviewable. Labs are the public practical layer of Designesy — a workbench where a thesis becomes a live artifact, review checklist, portable contract, and implementation-ready prompt.
Live labs
Poise
How Designesy responds when someone touches it.
Restrained interaction: wordmark, press, sound preference, and reduced motion — made inspectable against the design system contract.
Open lab →Takt
How an interface feels under your hands.
Concentric radii, press scale, image outlines, hit areas, stagger rhythm — portable rules with exact values, compiled from external design intelligence and verified on designesy.org.
Open lab →Cadence
The rhythm of text on a page.
Font smoothing, rem-based scale, line-height by role, tracking by size, measure, text-wrap, tabular numbers, and selection — portable rules with exact values, compiled from external typography intelligence and verified on designesy.org.
Open lab →Acoustics
Interaction sound as a token system.
Ten cues, ten interaction roles, one documented engine. The sound parallel to the visual token system — no sound without a token name and rationale. Cuelume v0.1.0, adopted in contract v0.3.0.
Open lab →Related surfaces
Lab anatomy
Package map for a mature Lab. Each cell makes the experiment inspectable, reviewable, and promotable into durable rules.
Promotion rule
Core rule
An experiment becomes contract material only after its useful behavior is named.
Before promotion, a Lab records: